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- Kathleen Beller was born on 19 February 1956 in Queens, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Godfather Part II (1974), Dynasty (1981) and The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982). She has been married to Thomas Dolby since 2 July 1988. They have three children. She was previously married to Michael Hoit.
- Anna Bjorn was born in 1955 in Iceland. She is an actress, known for The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), Remington Steele (1982) and More American Graffiti (1979).
- Tammi Furness is known for The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982).
- Ms. Morgan began her career solely as an actress but branched out to hosting, co-hosting, and contributing editor stints on a variety of shows. Perhaps she is best known in this venue from her numerous appearances on ABC's popular 1990s precursor to HGTV, "THE HOME SHOW". Here she introduced viewers to the joys of collecting, how to keep things neat and organized, household hints, and just about anything else they asked her to do: she visited Milan for the International Furniture Design Show and she was there when they closed the door on Biosphere II. All of which contribute to her justly being crowned "Lifestyle Expert". On HGTV she guided you through garden makeovers on "SURPRISE GARDENER WITH SHELLEY TAYLOR MORGAN". You've seen her plying her lifestyle trade on the Pax network's "GREAT DAY AMERICA" and dropping in for a visit on Lifetime's highly successful interior design program, "INTERIOR MOTIVES". Prior to her gardening show, she was spokeswoman for "Three Day Blinds" and she authored a column for the glossy "Entertainment @ Home", a cutting-edge magazine devoted to bringing the world of computers to those who are still being dragged into it kicking and screaming.
In the mid 1990s, her foray into the living rooms of America had her doing just about everything at E! ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION. She began her association with E! in August 1993 as the host of "PURE SOAP", their first ever daily live half-hour series covering all aspects of daytime drama. When the series was completed in December 1994, Morgan's popularity made it a natural to keep her as part of the E! team. She became a utility player and went on to host a variety of E! original programs including "COMING ATTRACTIONS", a weekly half-hour series of movie teasers and trailers; and "BEHIND THE SCENES", a weekly insider's look at all facets of the entertainment industry. She hosted the live coverage of both the "DAYTIME EMMYS" and the "SOAP OPERA AWARDS." She hosted E!'s annual guide to the Daytime Emmy nominations, "DAYTIME SIZZLES" and did field reporting duties for "E! NEWS DAILY". After her association with E!, she lent her expertise as celebrity guest co-host for the launch of the Family Channel's "TREASURES IN YOUR HOME" with continued duties interviewing celebrities and their favorite collectibles. All of these diverse opportunities draw upon two of Shelley's most outstanding talents -- acting and talking!
Her voice is so distinctive; a catalog sales operator knew exactly who she was before she gave her name and credit card!
Prior to her success as a tv host, daytime drama is where she enjoyed her first acting successes. Her first soap was ABC's phenomenally popular "GENERAL HOSPITAL" playing 'Lorena Sharpe' the lovely vixen who was Monica Quartermaine's cousin. When she wasn't blackmailing her spa customers, she spent her time lusting after 'Jimmy Lee Holt'. "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" was the second series for Shelley, who took over the role of 'Angelica Deveraux'.
Over Morgan's career, she's made guest star appearances on comedies and dramas such as "Archie Bunker's Place," "Big Brother Jake", "Star of the Family,", "I Married Dora", "Webster", FOX network's "The Wilton North Report", and a guest-starring role on ABC's, "ONCE AND AGAIN" where she worked once again with actor Billy Campbell with whom she co-starred in the world premier stage production, "Scenic Route: Backbone of America" at the Tiffany Theatre on the famous Sunset Boulevard.
Shelley has appeared in various feature films including "The Sword and the Sorcerer" and "My Tutor." Early on, she appeared in the made-for-television movie, "Marilyn, The Untold Story".
One of her biggest television successes was on NBC-TV's long-running "HUNTER" creating the role of 'Kitty O'Hearn' a semi-regular for two seasons. Shelley's 'Detective O'Hearn' may have appeared flakey on the surface, but that was just a 'Colombo' type ruse to hide a keen deductive mind.
Shelley's gift of gab has come in handy for celebrity appearances on 'A.M. Los Angeles". When the regular co-host became ill just prior to air time, Shelley effortlessly stepped in to host the show with Steve Edwards. She did so well, ABC brass came down to the studio during the show to shake her hand. She soon found herself in demand serving as a contributing editor on "IT'S A GREAT LIFE," "VTV", "SHOP TELEVISION NETWORK," and, of course, "THE HOME SHOW".
Shelley's stage appearances include her debut in "Steambath" at the Wightman Theatre in Long Beach; "The Mind with the Dirty Man," a Phoenix production co-starring Don Knotts, Randy Mantooth and Rue McClanahan; and the long-running comedy hit, "Aspirins and Elephants" at the Santa Monica Playhouse. - Actress
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Suzy Mandel is a former actress and model best known for her roles in 1970s British sex comedies like Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976) and Come Play with Me (1977), as well as her appearances on The Benny Hill Show (1969).
Born Jacqueline Ann Elaine Jefcoate on March 6, 1953, in London, England, she grew up on the Isle of Sheppey and later in Epping, Essex, and then Woodford, Essex and Buckhurst Hill, Essex. A 1968 graduate of The London Modelling Academy, she began her career as a coat model then worked in modeling lingerie, winning such prestigious awards as Miss Benson and Hedges, Miss Teenage London and Miss TV Times (the latter broadcast on UK television in 1974). Her modeling career also included appearances as a Page 3 girl in "The Sun" as well as one of the earliest "Mirror Girls" in the "Daily Mirror".
Her acting career in British sex comedies began in 1976, with her first film Intimate Games (1976). Comedian Benny Hill saw her in it, and cast her in his TV series "The Benny Hill Show". Aside from the Hill shows, Suzy also featured in numerous television productions of this period, as well as comedy sketches in shows by Dick Emery (playing the girlfriend of Emery's biker character), Marty Feldman, Eric Idle and Basil Brush. In films Suzy quickly became a favorite of British sex film directors and audiences alike and was soon receiving equal billing to Mary Millington, the UK's biggest sex symbol of the 1970s. As well as appearing with Millington in two films, Suzy was present when the infamous topless picture of Mary was taken at 10 Downing Street in which Mary, while posing for a picture with a policeman outside Number Ten, unzipped her top, much to the surprise of Suzy, photographer George Richardson and the policeman in question. Mary and Suzy's film "Come Play with Me" still stands as one of the longest-running films in British movie history, having played continuously at the Moulin Cinema in London's West End from 1977-81. In a publicity stunt for the second-year anniversary of the film's opening, both Suzy and Mary posed in lingerie on the Moulin cinema's marquee. Sadly, only a few months later Millington committed suicide, aged just 33.
During her career in British sex comedies Suzy also had her own cartoon strip, "The Adventures of Suzy Mandel", that appeared in the pages of "Whitehouse magazine". And as if that weren't enough, she also had a racehorse named after her.
In Los Angeles in 1981 Suzy married wealthy British film financier Stan Margolis, who had ties with Tigon British Film Productions--the company that released some of her best known films--and who would later co-produce the 1993 film True Romance (1993). Suzy had already been living in Los Angeles for some time--in 1979 she attended the world-famous Lee Strasberg Institute there for one year, studying acting and voice, as well as studying with well-known voice and dialect coach Robert Easton. Suzy also continued working, appearing in such films as The Private Eyes (1980) and Mistress of the Apes (1979), as well as having a walk-on in TV's The Love Boat (1977).
Suzy's stateside career continued into the 1980s with national TV commercials for Kawasaki, Toyota and Nissan. She performed her own stunts for the Toyota commercial as well as in one for Red Mountain Coffee, which was filmed in Sedona, Arizon,a by a British crew, many of whom had previously worked on the film Chariots of Fire (1981). Suzy also appeared in several American pilots for TV series, including "All Nonsense Network News" starring Garry Owens, "We're Making It" starring Peter Lawford and Larry Storch and "Sunset Strip" starring Murray Langston (aka "The Unknown Comic"). However, Suzy eventually moved behind the scenes, working on the horror comedy Dead Men Don't Die (1990) starring Elliott Gould, and co-producing Love Bites (1993), starring Adam Ant. She and Margolis divorced the following year.
In 1996 Suzy revealed in the British newspaper "The People", in an article entitled "Ex-Hill's Angel Suzy is a Real Angel of Mercy", that she had quit show business to work as a nurse caring for people dying from AIDS after several of her friends had died due to the disease. Suzy was awarded a full scholarship to become a LVN and study at the world-renowned Cedars-Sinai Hospital in L.A. In 2006 she returned to producing, working with adult-video director Jennifer James on a series entitled "Inside Erotica".
Happy to reminisce about her career, Suzy was interviewed by writer and film historian Simon Sheridan for the liner notes of the UK DVD release of "Intimate Games". She resides in Arizona, USA.